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the pain and the pleasure
to be sent home
‘The Question’)
his early baldness (Skalla in his name means 'bald') and his exceptional ugliness
The House in Bacolet Ina Rilke the pain and the pleasureBritish couple Hugh and Julia Pennington buy an old church to convert on a former cocoa plantation on a Caribbean island. When their estate agent fails to meet them at the airport, they accept a lift in a large American car from a charismatic local, Horatio. The couple are to become increasingly dependent on Horatio who ends up moving into their servants quarters but remains an enigma. Hugh and Julia want to get involved in the life of their adopted